Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum in Secondary Schools
Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum in Secondary Schools

Author: Steven Hutchinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published:

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1134508948

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The articles which make up this reader provide both overview and analysis of the central issues in secondary education. Focused closely upon what it means to teach and learn in the modern secondary classroom, this book provides invaluable insight into the development of secondary education today. It is an ideal introduction to the task of teachers in secondary schools. Issues covered in the book include:the new agenda around teaching and learning effective pedagogy the teacher-student relationship teaching, learning and the digital agegrouping by ability managing the cu.

Curriculum Differentiation
Curriculum Differentiation

Author: Reba Neukom Page

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780791404690

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Sharing methods and orientations of the interpretive paradigm, the contributors to this book sharpen our understanding of the school's differentiating function. They analyze issues and clarify persistent contradictions in traditional studies of curriculum differentiation and tracking by examining schools and classrooms and describing the processes and contexts in which curriculum differentiation produces both its intended and unintended effects. Curriculum Differentiation focuses on student's creation of meaning from differentiated classroom ecperiences. It studies lower-track students, analyzes the experiences of students in alternative programs, and contrasts the experiences of honor students in two different schools. It also offers teachers' perspectives, and analyzes curriculum differentiation from a district or system perspective. The authors challenge notions that curriculum differentiation is a neutral, necessary response to individual differences, or that it has an adverse impact on students. Professional educators interested in understanding and improving the means by which high schools carry out the nearly impossible mandate of equitably distributing "humanized" knowledge while accommodating diversity will find this book an important resource.

WAC Partnerships Between Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions
WAC Partnerships Between Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions

Author: Jacob Blumner

Publisher: Parlor Press LLC

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1602358109

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Working with educators at all academic levels involved in WAC partnerships, the authors and editors of this collection demonstrate successful models of collaboration between schools and institutions so others can emulate and promote this type of collaboration.

The Death and Resurrection of a Coherent Literature Curriculum
The Death and Resurrection of a Coherent Literature Curriculum

Author: Sandra Stotsky

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1610485580

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This book is addressed to teachers who know that the secondary literature curriculum in our public schools is in shambles. Unless experienced and well-read English teachers can develop coherent and increasingly demanding literature curricula in their schools, average high school students will remain at about the fifth or sixth grade reading level--where they now are to judge from several independent sources. This book seeks to challenge education policy makers, test developers, and educators who discourage the assignment of appropriately difficult works to high school students and make construction of a coherent literature curriculum impossible. It first traces the history of the literature curriculum in our middle schools and high schools and shows how it has been diminished and distorted in the past half-century. It then offers examples of coherent literature curricula and spells out the cognitive principles upon which coherence is based. Finally, it suggests what English teachers in our public schools could do to develop a literature curriculum that gives all their students an adequate basis for participation in an English-speaking civic culture.